However, in a much richer market, Jerry Reinsdorf of the White Sox overspent for the troubled Albert Belle last season, and then flew the white flag of surrender, getting rid of three starting pitchers in August.
He lived on the run for a while, and then, having heard that fugitives who surrendered got better treatment, he turned himself in.
Harry surrenders, gets killed (omg!), comes back to life, and finally (finally!) vanquishes the Big Bad V for good (maybe??).
But the alternative, an insistence on the regime's unconditional surrender, has got them precisely nowhere over the past 15 years.
I surrender, come and get me, third dirt road on the left, past the dairy farm where Brunhilde is singing "Edelweiss" at the udders, and don't forget your assault rifle?
After Germany surrendered, he got involved with the Committee for National Liberation in Torino and joined the postwar city council.
With fighting raging all across Najaf yesterday, Mr Shaalan said Mr Sadr's supporters had just a "few hours" to surrender and get out of the golden-domed shrine.
"I'd request all the mothers in Kashmir to please request their sons who have joined terrorism to surrender and get back to the mainstream," he said.
"Erdogan only left two alternatives for the Kurds or the Kurdish freedom movement, either surrender or get killed," he said.
(Doc Pomus, who together with Mort Shuman wrote twenty-five songs for Elvis, including "Little Sister" and "Surrender," never even got to meet the King).
